[squid-users] speeding up browsing? any advice?!

2009-05-10 Thread Roland Roland
Hi All, users on my network have been complaining of slow browsing sessions for a while now.. i'm trying to figure out ways to speed sessions up without necessarily upgrading my current bandwidth plan... i've thought about Squid, i've set it up on centOS and it's under testing. so my question

[squid-users] Log Request Header

2009-05-10 Thread Mario Remy Almeida
Hi All, Can someone help me in understanding why there is NONE:// [-] for Request Header in the logs logformat - %ts.%03tu %tg %a %ru [%h] [%h] for [%h] I get NONE:// [-] in the logs Need help Regards, Remy --

Re: [squid-users] speeding up browsing? any advice?!

2009-05-10 Thread Tim Bates
Roland Roland wrote: but while using wireshark, i see that for each browsing session i retrieve all Static objects from the net! at the same time caching logs shows hit after another... is that normal ?! I assume you are using Wireshark to watch traffic between your squid box and the

[squid-users] Problem using external acl with tcp_outgoing_address

2009-05-10 Thread Adam
Hello I have simple external perl helper program #!/usr/bin/perl $| = 1; open(LOG, /tmp/squid.log); print LOG RUNNING\n; close(LOG); while(defined($line = STDIN)){ print OK\n; open(LOG, /tmp/squid.log); print LOG Got: $line\n; close(LOG); } It should always returns OK

Re: [squid-users] Problem using external acl with tcp_outgoing_address

2009-05-10 Thread Amos Jeffries
Adam wrote: Hello I have simple external perl helper program #!/usr/bin/perl $| = 1; open(LOG, /tmp/squid.log); print LOG RUNNING\n; close(LOG); while(defined($line = STDIN)){ print OK\n; open(LOG, /tmp/squid.log); print LOG Got: $line\n; close(LOG); } It should always

RE: [squid-users] speeding up browsing? any advice?!

2009-05-10 Thread RoLaNd RoLaNd
oh ok, makes sense.. thanks for the clarification i appreciate that :) though one more question if possible, is there anything i could possibly do to speed up browsing aside what i mentioned earlier? keep in mind that i only added an allow ACL to my subnet... and that's it! is it enough?

Re: [squid-users] speeding up browsing? any advice?!

2009-05-10 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Sun, 10 May 2009, Roland Roland wrote: users on my network have been complaining of slow browsing sessions for a while now.. i'm trying to figure out ways to speed sessions up without necessarily upgrading my current bandwidth plan... Squid may help with this. However, you don't

Re: [squid-users] speeding up browsing? any advice?!

2009-05-10 Thread Amos Jeffries
Hi, On Sun, 10 May 2009, Roland Roland wrote: users on my network have been complaining of slow browsing sessions for a while now.. i'm trying to figure out ways to speed sessions up without necessarily upgrading my current bandwidth plan... Squid may help with this. However, you don't

[squid-users] Squid logs into MySQL database

2009-05-10 Thread Visolve Squid Team
Hi All, We have released an earlier version of an external program( plug-in ) to log squid access to MySQL database using logfile_daemon feature in squid 2.7. The plug-in is available at : http://www.visolve.com/squid/squid-mysqllog.php Do send your comments for the improvement. Thanks,

RE: [squid-users] speeding up browsing? any advice?!

2009-05-10 Thread RoLaNd RoLaNd
hello and thanks for the prompt reply, sorry for not mentioning earlier, though i continuously check my ISP's PRTG to notice that we have maxed out our allowed bandwidth. which is a waste since we only browse specific sites that load specific static images that may or may not change in none

RE: [squid-users] speeding up browsing? any advice?!

2009-05-10 Thread RoLaNd RoLaNd
thanks for the advice, i just increased cache size to 300 GB (i have 1 Terra raided hdd so i dont mind the size) as for object size i've set it to 15 MB. though one question, i've read that there's a certain option that keeps cached objects in memory for quick retrieval.. i've got 6 GB of

RE: [squid-users] speeding up browsing? any advice?!

2009-05-10 Thread Adam Carter
thanks for the advice, i just increased cache size to 300 GB (i have 1 Terra raided hdd so i dont mind the size) as for object size i've set it to 15 MB. though one question, i've read that there's a certain option that keeps cached objects in memory for quick retrieval.. Usually the